go vs push

go

verb
  • To move or travel in order to do something, or to do something while moving. 

  • To move through space (especially to or through a place). (May be used of tangible things like people or cars, or intangible things like moods or information.) 

  • To change (from one value to another) in the meaning of wend. 

  • To elapse, to pass; to slip away. (Compare go by.) 

  • To be spent or used up. 

  • To belong (somewhere). 

  • To (begin to) date or have sex with (a particular race). 

  • To make the (specified) sound. 

  • To fit. 

  • To urinate or defecate. 

  • To tend (toward a result). 

  • To be lost. 

  • To have (final) authority; to be authoritative. 

  • I woke up just before the clock went. 

  • To take (a particular part or share); to participate in to the extent of. 

  • Let's go halves on this. 

  • Synonyms: crumble, collapse, disintegrate, give way 

  • To continuously or habitually be in a state. 

  • I went at him with a knife. 

  • To be in general; to be usually; often in comparison to others of the same group. 

  • To enjoy. (Compare go for.) 

  • To attend. 

  • To be sold. 

  • To survive or get by; to last or persist for a stated length of time. 

  • Synonyms: become, turn, change into 

  • To proceed (often in a specified manner, indicating the perceived quality of an event or state). 

  • To apply oneself; to undertake; to have as one's goal or intention. (Compare be going to.) 

  • To navigate (to a file or folder on a computer, a site on the internet, a memory, etc). 

  • To be given, especially to be assigned or allotted. 

  • To sound; to make a noise. 

  • To leave; to move away. 

  • To extend (from one point in time or space to another). 

  • To turn out, to result; to come to (a certain result). 

  • To come to (a certain condition or state). 

  • To start; to begin (an action or process). 

  • To work (through or over), especially mentally. 

  • Synonyms: see Thesaurus:urinate, see also Thesaurus:defecate 

  • To attack. 

  • To say (something, aloud or to oneself). (Often used in present tense.) 

  • To date. 

  • Yesterday was the second-wettest day on record; you have to go all the way back to 1896 to find a day when more rain fell. 

  • Synonyms: function, work, operate 

  • To break down or decay. 

  • To be accepted. 

  • We've only gone twenty miles today. 

  • To be valid. 

  • To have a certain record. 

  • To take a turn, especially in a game. 

  • To make an effort, to subject oneself (to something). 

  • To be out. 

  • To resort (to). 

  • To move (a particular distance, or in a particular fashion). 

  • To yield or weigh. 

  • Those babies go five tons apiece. 

  • To be discarded or disposed of. 

  • To follow or proceed according to (a course or path). 

  • To lead (to a place); to give access to. 

  • To be expressed or composed (a certain way). 

  • Anything goes around here. 

  • Why don’t you go with us? 

  • Let's go this way for a while. 

  • To end or disappear. (Compare go away.) 

  • To fight or attack. 

  • How long can you go without water? 

  • To offer, bid or bet an amount; to pay. 

  • To proceed (especially to do something foolish). 

  • To collapse or give way, to break apart. 

  • Expressing encouragement or approval. 

  • To become. (The adjective that follows usually describes a negative state.) 

  • To move or travel through time (either literally—in a fictional or hypothetical situation in which time travel is possible—or in one's mind or knowledge of the historical record). (See also go back.) 

  • To contribute to a (specified) end product or result. 

  • To die. 

  • To work or function (properly); to move or perform (as required). 

  • To assume the obligation or function of; to be, to serve as. 

  • To travel or pass along. 

  • To be compatible, especially of colors or food and drink. 

noun
  • A turn at something, or in something (e.g. a game). 

  • An attempt, a try. 

  • An approval or permission to do something, or that which has been approved. 

  • Power of going or doing; energy; vitality; perseverance. 

  • The situation where a player cannot play a card which will not carry the aggregate count above thirty-one. 

  • An act; the working or operation. 

  • A period of activity. 

  • Synonym: green light 

  • A strategic board game, originally from China and today also popular in Japan and Korea, in which two players (black and white) attempt to control the largest area of the board with their counters. 

  • Synonyms: attempt, bash, shot, stab, try 

  • The act of going. 

adj
  • Working correctly and ready to commence operation; approved and able to be put into action. 

push

verb
  • To press or urge forward; to drive. 

  • To move (a pawn) directly forward. 

  • To tense the muscles in the abdomen in order to give birth or defecate. 

  • To burst out of its pot, as a bud or shoot. 

  • To add (a data item) to the top of a stack. 

  • To apply a force to (an object) such that it moves away from the person or thing applying the force. 

  • To strike the cue ball in such a way that it stays in contact with the cue and object ball at the same time (a foul shot). 

  • To continually attempt to persuade (a person) into a particular course of action. 

  • To make an all-in bet. 

  • To continually exert oneself in order to achieve a goal. 

  • To make a higher bid at an auction. 

  • To approach; to come close to. 

  • To continually promote (a point of view, a product for sale, etc.). 

  • To continue to attempt to persuade a person into a particular course of action. 

  • To publish (an update, etc.) by transmitting it to other computers. 

noun
  • A wager that results in no loss or gain for the bettor as a result of a tie or even score 

  • A short, directed application of force; an act of pushing. 

  • A foul shot in which the cue ball is in contact with the cue and the object ball at the same time 

  • An act of tensing the muscles of the abdomen in order to expel its contents. 

  • A marching or drill maneuver/manoeuvre performed by moving a formation (especially a company front) forward or toward the audience, usually to accompany a dramatic climax or crescendo in the music. 

  • An attempt to persuade someone into a particular course of action. 

  • The addition of a data item to the top of a stack. 

  • A great effort (to do something). 

  • The situation where a server sends data to a client without waiting for a request. 

How often have the words go and push occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )